| 单词 | pigsty |
| 例句 | Before the next spasms could stop her, she ran to the pigsty, each step a rushing out into emptiness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Cowsheds, stables, pigsties, barns, bungalows, hayricks, anything that got in its way went toppling over like a nine-pin. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “Get to work, then, starting with the pigsty first.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But these impressions—that Count Olaf was a horrible person, and his house a depressing pigsty—were absolutely correct. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I wanted to show her the Vietnam that kept me awake at night—a shady trail outside the village of My Khe, a filthy old pigsty on the Batangan Peninsula. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A new pigsty was building far from the house and downwind, with chicken and duck runs near and a kennel for the dogs to keep the coyotes away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The pigsty stank, and so did the outhouse, the refuse pit, and the field workers plowing in the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A couple of days before Christmas we gathered by the pigsty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z What they found instead was a midden heap, a pigsty, an empty sheepfold, and a windowless daub-and-wattle hall scarce worthy of the name. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Blanca, however, grumbled because her brothers had transformed the house into a pigsty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The chicken coop squatted between the pigsty and the mango tree, a branch of which held one end of Mami’s laundry line, the other end stretched to the trunk of an acerola bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z "I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends--in the modern world." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Really now, this kitchen is an absolute pigsty...” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He did not notice that the walls of his house were eager for a coat of paint, that the furniture was falling apart, and that the kitchen had turned into a pigsty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d rather live in a pigsty,” he said, and he walked out of the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind the house, under the breadfruit tree, there was a pigsty, now empty, the mud the pigs loved to bathe in dried into dusty ridges. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z "You? You couldn't sew a dress fit to clean the pigsties." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “What are you going to do there anyway, in that pigsty? Live with the animals? It’s filthy there.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Excellent. The place looked like a pigsty last time.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to say that my room is a pigsty?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She may have gone to the pigsty as a last act of responsibility: she would protect this child as she had protected its father. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m leaving. Your henchman has terrified me completely. I shall never make the mistake of even passing by this vile pigsty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No need for him to think I’m keeping you in a pigsty.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It was a pigsty, with roaches crawling over the bunched-up sheets and garbage on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until my father sent for her to live in the Bronx, my mother delivered babies in beds and pigsties. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sons had nailed plywood sheets to the windows and along the front of her house, so that the only way in was the back door leading to the latrine, barn, and pigsty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty— bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all swinish now, though minds were still unchanged. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Edwardian Farm8pm, BBC2 November at Morwellham Quay, and Ruth takes on the enviable task of restoring the farm's "pigsty privy" which, as the name suggests, combines a lavatory with a pigsty. Tonight's TV highlights: Edwardian Farm 2010-11-24T00:05:00Z She also spent a good hour every morning rushing around in her quilted bathrobe, complaining that the house was a “pigsty.” The Battle Hymn of the Papier-Mâché Mother 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z I spent a long afternoon with Bangs, in his pigsty of an apartment, off Fourteenth Street, in Manhattan. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z We moved to Hampshire and built a pigsty. ‘As a carnist I’m conditioned to accept meat-eating is natural’ | Comment 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Later that night, the young woman gives birth in the family’s ravaged pigsty, and then she drowns herself and her baby. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: For 55 years of marriage, our main arguments are around her tidiness — to a point I would call anal — and my sloppiness, which my wife would call "pigsty." Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The same argument for decades, but on this they agree: No therapy 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “To call Washington D.C. a moral pigsty would be an insult to pigs.” Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Next to the pigsty is a whipping post, which the camera doesn’t initially notice until it’s finally used in one of the film’s most brutal scenes. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Production Design on ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-22T20:22:50Z All around town, wall maps pinpointed the far-flung locations of Homeric sites such as Eumaeus’s pigsty, the nymph’s cave and Odysseus’s palace. Lost in the Odyssey 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z Mad Ma X: In the 10th installment of the series, little Billy still hasn’t cleaned his pigsty of a room! Style Invitational: Make some bad choices — ‘questions for terrible people’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The one she settled on wasn’t nearly as grand as others in Xidi — it was a teacher’s home during the Ming dynasty and was being used as a pigsty when she found it. Next Stop: In Anhui, China, Centuries-Old Charm 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z "I turned the spare bedroom upside down looking for the decorations. It was an absolute pigsty by the time I was done with it - stuff was everywhere." Woman discovers her ex threw out most of her Christmas decorations 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Suddenly my pigsty office is 10 times as depressing as it already was. On Her OWN: What to Expect on Oprah Winfrey's TV Channel 2010-12-29T08:20:00Z The place was a pigsty, but our boys loved it, collecting dozens of dirty bottles and making giant bottle castles. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Mornings I drift along to my pigsty while she works in her home office. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Bats that were fleeing this human-caused disaster roosted above pigsties in Malaysia. "The Last of Us" is an almost-perfect metaphor for climate change, but it gets one thing wrong 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z In Klong Toey, he met a Catholic nun, Sister Maria Chantavarodom, now 92, who led him through the narrow lanes and joined him in founding the tiny school in a former pigsty. Bangkok’s Priest to the Poor Finds His Fit Among Fellow Outcasts 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty. L.A. Affairs: I disliked her breath but I stuck around for her cooking 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z But surveillance video showed the police leading him away moments before he was found dead near a pigsty. A Cafe Devoted to Remembering Duterte’s Drug War Victims 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z He had a shattered leg, so was carried and dragged across a field by Pte O'Callaghan, who swerved to avoid a barn full of SS soldiers cooking a meal, until they found a pigsty. World War Two soldier massacre anniversary marked 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release: 'If any couple is going to survive this, it's them' 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Some farmers supplemented their income with fruit orchards, planting trees next to open-air pigsties — perfect flying fox buffets. How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “They can’t survive on that. And the jobs are harder because a room that hasn’t been cleaned in days is often a pigsty.” California's job growth tripled the nation's, even as the Delta variant spread 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z As the bats gorged themselves on fruit, they dropped pieces of food from the branches, along with their urine, into the pigsties, where at least one pig is believed to have eaten some. How climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z By then, he had grown increasingly frustrated by his reception in Britain, where he said that offering up his work to drama critics was like “rolling a Fabergé egg under a pigsty door.” Jonathan Miller, British polymath who restaged theater classics, dies at 85 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “You can’t see the virus with your eyes. The virus is still here, there is virus in the pigsty.” Swine fever toll in China may be twice as high as reported,... 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z The finger also gets pointed at the selfish car owners who would rather live in a pigsty than get up and move their cars in the morning for sweeping. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The storm ripped a door of its hinges and flung it more than 100 feet away into a pigsty, she said. US Pacific territory will need help to recover from typhoon 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It clearly showed two plainclothes police officers dragging the teenager away before he was shot dead in a rubbish-strewn alleyway, his body dumped next to a pigsty. Duterte Harry's drugs war: how one family was destroyed 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Today there are around 400,000 structures listed - from windmills, pigsties, piers and one rocket. Post-modern buildings get listed status 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Delos Santos' life ended in a dark nook next to a disused pigsty by the river. Shot and dumped by a pigsty: a schoolboy killed in Philippines drugs war 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Police found Adrian Jones’ remains in the pigsty at the family’s home in Kansas City, Kansas, in November 2015. Kansas grandmother of slain boy seeks home schooling reform 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The unusual listing was reported around the world, with Ms Thomson saying a site in the US criticised the "pigsty that the English woman lives in". Ipswich escapologist pig Pog goes on run again - BBC News 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z On a farm near Wincanton in Somerset, a charitable foundation operates from a former pigsty, the crumbling stone walls of which are little more than a nest for a timber building. Brutalist barns and concrete cowsheds: England’s new rural architecture 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Donald Trump’s authoritarian trashing of American norms has created a political pigsty. A centrist coalition is our best hope 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Delos Santos' life ended in a dark nook next to a disused pigsty by the river. Shot and dumped by a pigsty: a schoolboy killed in Philippines drugs war 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The family found refuge in a pit beneath a pigsty, where Dr. Eliach used the earthen wall as a chalkboard, learning the Hebrew alphabet. Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor who revived a lost town in photographs, dies 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z She is the mother of Michael Forbes, the quarry worker and salmon netsman whose small holding, where she also lives, was described as a pigsty by Trump. UK golf resort owned by Trump summonsed for alleged privacy breach 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z They roam freely, sleep outdoors or shelter in spacious pigsties. Spain’s Prized Ibérico Hams Can’t Cure Fast Enough for China 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Donald Trump’s authoritarian trashing of American norms has created a political pigsty. A centrist coalition is our best hope 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “The reckless act is that their house is a pigsty,” Yasmin Poles, an assistant Macomb County prosecutor, argued in court Wednesday. Child abuse case linked to ‘reckless act’ of messy house 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Italian farmers are installing showers and air conditioning in cowsheds and pigsties to allow the animals to freshen up in the baking summer heat, an agriculture group said on Thursday. Stressed Italian cows get air-conditioned sheds to combat heatwave 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In a recent ad Ms Ernst stands in a pigsty and says: “It’s a mess: dirty, noisy and it stinks...I’m talking about...Washington.” What they’re all about 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z A pigsty and two silos that were once part of the prison complex are gone. Unearthing a Barbarous Past in Poland 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z “I realized later, when I started reading several stories about it, it’s a pigsty – it makes our set look so clean by comparison.” Ted Kennedy Lives On in 'Alpha House' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He is now in a legal fight in his native Orange County, Calif., over a house he rented that the owners say he left looking like a pigsty, crawling with maggots. Kremlin Finds a Defender in Congress 2014-03-28T13:06:31Z Above all he failed to obtain passage of a bill that was to change a much despised election law called "the pigsty" - brought in under former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Italian PM 'torpedoed' by 'boundlessly ambitious' mayor 2014-02-13T22:45:11Z Catlin says he once pulled over a car that was a pigsty—except for some shredded paper that had been carefully stuffed into a potato chip bag. Beware of Gangsters Filing Tax Returns 2014-01-09T20:00:52Z “For your rank-and-file federal worker, there is a lot of sympathy for them getting caught up in the pigsty that is Washington, D.C.,” Federal Diary: Shutdown could boost perception of federal employees 2013-10-08T00:27:00Z Rotting food began to accumulate on the streets, turning the pigless city into a pigsty and the government acknowledged the flaws in its decision. Second Helpings: Recycling Cairo's Food Waste 2013-05-13T12:45:00.353Z The law, known as "the pigsty" because it is so messy, enables party leaders to handpick members of parliament and guarantees a strong majority to the winning coalition, however small their share of the vote. Italy president indicates March 10 as possible vote day 2012-11-16T22:22:33Z From sleeping in pigsties to sneaking past sleeping guards, new accounts emerging are making the tale of Chen Guangcheng's escape from house arrest more and more astonishing. The Great Escape 2012-05-18T08:21:24Z A few minutes' time; a gossip with Mrs. Quale, touching the doings of Daffodil's Delight, and a groan at those thriftless Shucks, in their pigsty of a room. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z Nor is this the sum-total of their industry; their yard is well supplied with poultry, their gardens with vegetables, if they lack flowers; and many a goodly-sized swine enriches their pigsties. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z An old pigsty is an excellent place for a brood of young ducks. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z “Even the pigsties were painted, sir,” said he. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z It is Rollo who cries: "Percival, it will kill us!" when the ram they have annoyed comes with a fourth shattering crash against the boards of the pigsty to which they have fled for safety. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z This glamor out of a pigsty ... how come? Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z There's the pigsty, for instance; it wants cleaning out. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z Sure, they stink out a pigsty, but they beat the spread. What readers are saying 2011-11-13T04:11:32Z There were two windows; one looked full on the fir-trees; the other on the farmyard with the pigsty closing the view. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z "Oh, Roger," said Annette, speaking to him for the first time by his Christian name, "have you seen it, the fishes and the ducks, and the pigsty, and the little lambs and everything?" Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z In a country3 place he will seek anything but the garden, but may, perhaps, be found near a wild Rose tossing over the pigsty. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z This town is a sort of human pigsty so far as I can see. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z On the other side of the wall, and on somewhat lower ground, was a pigsty, beyond that a cow-yard, then a barn and some ricks. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z He will lie and deceive like Charles his father, and he will turn his Court into a pigsty, like his grandfather James. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z Her grandmother tried to hide her in a pigsty, but the grandfather, Yang Qinzheng, a Communist Party member and a former soldier, bade her to come out. Officials in China Seized Infants for Black Market, Parents Say 2011-08-05T01:03:18Z There is generally a mason, who goes about from farm to farm mending walls and pigsties, and all such odd jobs, working for his own hand. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z In sandy or gravelly soils, however, cow manure or that from the pigsty will serve far better. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z Its main features were roughly built cottages, sorrily kept potato plots, pigsties, and smells. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z There he went to the pigsty to a pig whom he had known out on the common, and ever since had been the best friends with. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z It is too far from the pigsties of towns. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z They especially haunt the pigsties, and when the pigs are served with their food feed with them at the same trough. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z As they whirled in the yard Mason saw a new house of the ambitious pork-pie order, standing in a fairly well-kept sward, with a background of barns, corncribs, pigsties and beehives. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z This was in character with the wretched mud hovels then occupied by the labouring population, not half so good as many pigsties are now-a-days. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Over the tumble-down gate-way, with a pigsty on one side and a dog-kennel on the other, hangs a coat of arms. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Of course, there may be people who think that if you describe a pigsty well you are a 'realist,' and if you describe an altar well you are 'romantic.' The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z It was a dilapidated looking place and the shanties were hardly improvements on pigsties, but we decided that it was better to eat there than to risk going farther and finding none. Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League 2011-03-03T03:00:48.280Z Old Johnny used to build little walls and pigsties down in Lincolnshire, and had his boy, young Johnny, with him. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z The mangrove area lies flat and still in a smooth and glittery glow in the morning sunlight but looks more like a well trampled pigsty by sunset. 2010-02-14T16:34:00Z A faint spectral light from the rising moon outlined the log barn, the two log cabins, and pigsty, which, with the frame house she was in, comprised Tim’s Place. The Girl From Tim's Place The vault, greatly neglected, was not far from the well; and so of the pigsty. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician You pay as much for a pigsty as a man pays for a palace. A Bed of Roses Of course, the pigsty is a little bit extreme. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop The house is just like a pigsty with all your rubbish. Under the Mendips A Tale "Catch me coming to this pigsty of a shop again!" he exclaimed, furiously clapping his hat on his head, and sweeping like the north wind up the street in search of a hatter. Maximina He wanted to find out how one could change one's rooms, for he would live in a pigsty to avoid Galer. Years of Plenty One of the greatest drawbacks to the majority of the pigsties is the absence of ventilation without draught. The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing The fellow who laid down the axiom that you’re never thoroughly comfortable until you’re thoroughly dirty must have been born in a pigsty himself. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The boulevards were littered with the refuse of the houses and were foul as pigsties, and the ladies under the parasols were picking their way along them in Parisian boots and silk dresses. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses He had a miserable little room, close by the pigsty, and here he was obliged to stay; and he sat the whole day long and worked. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series He said, “Well, you shan’t stop here; and if you didn’t mind sleeping in the pigsty, I wouldn’t even let you have a bed there.” Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Suburban kennels and pigsties will not do, as it is necessary that they should reside near enough to their work. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) To call it a pigsty would not convey any conception of the dire disorder of it. Command They waddled willingly into the pigsty, and stood at attention, quacking. Loyal to the School "What can be the reason for such a crowd close by the pigsty?" asked the emperor, who happened just then to step out on the balcony. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series "You mean," interrupted Kohlhaas, "that it was such a bad place for horses, that it was more like a pigsty than a stable." Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Tom, if you want a job, there's one of the palings of the pigsty broken away. Better than Play A haystack in summer and a pigsty in winter sufficed him. My Lady of the Chimney Corner They hauled a tin bath outside and shut themselves into a disused pigsty with a pail of warm water and a packet of Lux, a sponge, the biggest watering-can, and their victims the ducks. Loyal to the School The pigsties have no more smell than the stables, because the manure is removed, and no garbage is allowed to accumulate. The Hills and the Vale "I mean a pigsty, master," said Herse, "really and truly a pigsty, where the pigs ran in and out, and in which I could not stand upright." Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors An hour later, Calvin was out in the barnyard, leaning over the pigsty, and looking at the finest hogs in the county. The Wooing of Calvin Parks What Jamie saw on the way to the pigsty made the perspiration stand in big beads on his furrowed brow. My Lady of the Chimney Corner It is more like a pigsty than anything else. Anxious Audrey At length the shed, being rather ancient, gave way under the weight of a very fat man, who was snugly deposited in a pigsty beneath, so that hope was cut off. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 "Then, in the end," said Kohlhaas, "it was not so bad in the pigsty, as it seemed, when first you looked into it." Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors I think I see you—for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences—I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) When I got to the pigsty there were several early callers lounging around. My Lady of the Chimney Corner But what can you expect of a girl brought up in a pigsty. Money Magic A Novel At the latter point of view are some wooden cabins which the Saxon might mistake for pigsties or small cowsheds until he discovered they were inhabited by patriots, keen on Home Rule and charitable coppers. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule For the white man, thus left to himself, grew increasingly dirty and uncared for; and his camp, once so clean under the care of Billy Hindoo, became as a pigsty of empty cans and bottles. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas So the Sheep and the Pig together butted down the pigsty, and started off on the big road together. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Without waiting for an answer he opened the door of the pigsty and peeped in. My Lady of the Chimney Corner In another minute they were crossing a large quadrangle, paved with marble, and tastefully decorated with a pigsty in each corner. A Tangled Tale We had a glorious game besieging the pigsty, and all the military orders had to be given in whispers for fear of us being turned out if anyone passed and heard us. Oswald Bastable and Others Imagine a colony of last year's swallows' nests under the eaves, or a collection of ruined pigsties and sheds, only they are not ruins at all, but living, thriving villages with healthy people in them. Round the Wonderful World He followed the road to a neighboring farm, and made his way to a pigsty where was fastened a Pig that he had known on the common. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales I joined Arthur and we sat on the wall of Gainer's pigsty. My Lady of the Chimney Corner After a considerable hunt through the barns they discovered him at last inside the pigsty, and bribed him with twopence to go and catch the pony. The Madcap of the School Univ. “persons”; a = admiring pigsties; b = Jews; c = knowing Hebrew; d = Mandarins; e = objecting to pork; h = reading Hogg’s poems. Symbolic Logic If she thought they were savages after David of Trebizond had baited them at her reception, what would she think after seeing this pigsty? The Saracen: Land of the Infidel If we took him in I should have to build a pigsty at the bottom of the garden for him, and I can't afford it. The Combined Maze He chose the pigsty, but before he retired I begged Anna to ask him about the Banshee. My Lady of the Chimney Corner Shutting the little gate, which had once been the front door of the pigsty, she ran back to the cottage. Dick and His Cat and Other Tales The habitable and comfortable house was a species of pigsty, built out of the rough branches of trees, without doors, windows, or roof. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 "What'll be your charge for the plan of the pigsty, Mr. Lindsay?" the Deacon inquired with an air of interest,—he might have been involved more deeply than he had intended. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 "I will take your berth, and the fellow shall not turn the room into a pigsty." Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy Hughie was escorted to the pigsty with his blanket and candle. My Lady of the Chimney Corner Her father had turned it into a pigsty; but he had left off keeping pigs for some time. Dick and His Cat and Other Tales Then there was a large poultry yard, pigsty and paddocks, and along the beach were the boat-houses, drying-sheds and storehouses, shaded by old trees. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Wonder if he hasn't got any good plans for a hahnsome pigsty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 She got into the pigsty to catch a young piggy, and was taken out in a sad state of dirt. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. I looked with rather changed sentiments, for example, upon the noisome pigsties—for were they not a survival of a venerable thrift? Change in the Village We should of stayed here the rest of the year with the place looking like a pigsty already! Elkan Lubliner, American A dozen simple huts stand irregularly about the square, some half decayed and serving as pigsties. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific From a pigsty a few yards away came expectant squeals. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany "I wonder what that crowd near the pigsty means!" said the emperor, who had just come out on his balcony. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Pr'ythee, vanish Into some outhouse, though it be the pigsty; My scullion shall come to thee. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 In the morning we were able to measure the strength of the storm, and over and above my pigsty, there was damage enough wrought in the village to keep us busy. Humorous Ghost Stories He turned the car half round, collided with a pigsty, backed into the barnyard fence, and narrowly missed taking a wheel off Anthony Crawford's decrepit wagon. The Windy Hill The castle's outbuildings were a shabby cow house and a pigsty. Lisbeth Longfrock The Signor's private means were not anything like enough to supply his peculiarly English tastes, and his wife would not “fritter her money away,” she said, “in pigsties.” Happy-Thought Hall I have been a farm hand, mainly used for cleaning out pigsties, and that kind of work. Antony Gray,—Gardener This was the first one, and I remember it well, because I found in the morning that it had lifted the thatch of my pigsty into the widow's garden as clean as a boy's kite. Humorous Ghost Stories Between us and the dwelling house there was a disused pigsty. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The tiny pigsty was built in the same fashion. Lisbeth Longfrock This is the house where you are to stop,” exclaimed Mr Isaac Shifty, pointing anxiously to an adjacent edifice, that looked something between a house and a pigsty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 The manager drew their attention to little openings in the sheepfolds nearly on a level with the floor, and ingenious doors in the pigsties which could shut of their own accord. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life I dare say you won't believe me,—it seems a bit tall even to me,—but the wind had lifted the thatch of my pigsty into the widow's garden a second time. Humorous Ghost Stories And he feared that any one of them would crowd him away from the good things that he meant to find beyond the walls of the pigsty. The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales This surprised him, as, generally speaking, the animals prowled round the palisade which encircled the sheep-fold, or else close to the pigsties which were at the opposite side from the entrance door. The Settlers in Canada Then we climbed a stile, paddled round a large manure heap, crossed an ash pit, and came at last to a pigsty. Lalage's Lovers A casual passer-by would never have noticed the low built pigsty that butted on to the hedge, its roof and sides being almost completely masked with brushwood and bramble vine. Men of Affairs "Putting out the pigsty, that was on fire, sir." Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast He kept the place like a pigsty, and the floor was littered with boards on which unlocked formes of type fell about into confusion. Despair's Last Journey Where the old pigsty stood, children dance and sing to the strumming of a cracked piano-organ propelled on wheels by an Italian and his wife. Children of the Tenements There were no pigs in it, and it was, for a pigsty, very clean. Lalage's Lovers The manure had to be got out of the stable and pigsties, and carried out to the potato-ground and garden; the crops had to be put in; and the cart was now found valuable. The Children of the New Forest The mosque was of much the same character, only there was a pigsty at one side of the yard. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Some of us pigsties, in which gross, swinish lusts wallow in filth; some of us shops; some of us laboratories, studies, museums; some of us amorphous structures that cannot be described. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The professor and his wife were doubtful about returning to the farm on which they had passed the previous summer, because they had been somewhat annoyed by the proximity of the pigsty to the house. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers I crept out of the pigsty and went home again, leading my injured bicycle. Lalage's Lovers Blinkhampton is not essential to me; and your hotel and so on won't flourish much if I leave my tumble-down cottages and pigsties just behind them. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Or they may lay the child in a pigsty with the same idea. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala In some of these there were small concrete shelters very much like old-fashioned pigsties, which on the left of the Essars sector, were used for Battalion Headquarters. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion In Frankfurt in 1481 the pigsties in the town had become such a nuisance that the Rath had to forbid them in the front of the houses by a formal decree. German Culture Past and Present It was on this path, a quarter of a mile or so from the road, that I met Canon Beresford, about ten days after my interview with Lalage in the pigsty. Lalage's Lovers Oh, if you could get nothing but a pigsty on the estate, you'd take it. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House But when the staff took possession it was a sorry pigsty. On the Heels of De Wet In perfect silence, he went to the pigsty; and lancing each foot and both ears of the pig, he allowed the blood to run into a piece of common dowlas. Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Dr. Johnson being asked his opinion of the title of a very small volume remarkable for its pomposity, replied, "That it was similar to placing an eight-and-forty pounder at the door of a pigsty." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings "Did she by any chance force her way into the pigsty and find the Anti-Cat?" Lalage's Lovers His pigsty was empty, except of snow; it made him think again of the empty barrels in the cabin. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories The snow that descends, making park and common alike—topping palace and pigsty, now crowns the semi-detached villas, Victoria and Albert. Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. The buttermilk may, as in the case of the whey, in the cheese dairy, be passed off in spouts to the pigsty, which should not be far distant. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Under this barn, which was used mainly for sheep and young cattle, there were several pigsties, now empty. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's By the roadside beyond the bridge there was a pigsty with one trough full of corn and another full of water. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales But the charmingly dressed beings, who looked like birds of paradise alighted by mistake in a pigsty, made sport of the squalor which we had expected to evoke their rage. My Friend the Chauffeur Such a room, Morris," Mrs. Perlmutter declared; "like a pigsty, and not a crust of bread in the house. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Next to this is the swill-room and pigsty for the 110 house pigs, as described in the last design; and over it a loft for farm seeds, small grains, and any other storage required. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings "Papa is out superintending the building of the new pigsties," said Beatrice as she rang the bell. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Whatever anyone likes to say, it is a much more crowded path than the old trail towards the pigsty. My War Experiences in Two Continents There had been stables for oxen and horses and sheep, lofts full of hay and corn, spacious tool-rooms, store-rooms for olive oil and fruits and wine, hen-yards and pigsties, and generous quarters for the workmen. Roads from Rome The buildings consisted of a wretched mud hut, some twelve feet square, a small yard, and a few pigsties. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 As the shed roof shuts down on to the pigsty and stables, no loft above them is necessary. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings There was a pigsty at the end of our alley against the gable of our house; but we never were rich enough to own a pig. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine One of the loveliest we ever saw had originally been a pigsty. If You're Going to Live in the Country "Rather a pigsty, isn't it?" he remarked, sweeping a heap of books from a chair. Nobody's Man I have seen a Rat on the top of a swill tub at a pigsty, when the p. 40swill has been about ten inches from the top of the tub. Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience It was very small, only one occupant could dress at a time, and immediately in front of it was a reeking pigsty with three full-sized occupants. Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' One of my earliest recollections is of extemporizing out of the pigsty one of the most familiar institutions in our town—a pawn shop. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine With much to apologize for in barn and pigsty, why place them in the seat of honor? The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Fenella entered the office as a princess shod in satin might enter a pigsty. The Lighted Way Have you ever done anything to help to make it possible that the masses of our town communities should live in places better than the pigsties in which many of them have to wallow? Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII "It shall not be said that while I live in a palace, my poor live in pigsties," said Lionel to Mr. Bitterworth one day. Verner's Pride The huts in which they live are little better than pigsties, and especially bad for regular navvies, who take their families about with them. Recent Developments in European Thought A staring, glaring farm-house, flanked by a red barn and a pigsty, all crowding the public road as hard as the path-master will permit, is incongruous and unsightly. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Owing to house shortage in Sheffield, two wooden pigsties are being inhabited, one by a man and his wife and two children, and the other by a man and his wife. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War Society seems to me no better than a pigsty; but in the beautiful convent—that we shall, alas! never see again—it was not so. Muslin And his cottages!—you never saw such pigsties! The Mating of Lydia The remainder of the famous rood had been used to mend the roads, to built pigsties and domestic offices; it had turned Protestant, in fact. The Hill of Dreams The back-room of a Chinese inn is nearly always a pigsty, and a noisome place on general principles. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama It would not be easy to pray and love and trust God and do His will, and keep clear of complicity with idolatry and immorality and sin, in such a pigsty as that; would it? Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Also, there is a large double garden thrown in, so large that a man can scarcely manage it in his spare time, a pigsty, fruit trees, etc. Regeneration Rats ran round and over me in profusion, and, of course, the best room being invariably nearest to the pigsties, there were the usual stenches. Across China on Foot And then you must remember, Franz Stepanitch, that he has six acres of garden, that he has pigsties and poultry houses, but it is all wasted and no use. Love Plans and models of farm buildings; general arrangement; stables, sheepfolds, barns, pigsties, breeding grounds; special arrangements for breeding and fattening cattle; granaries and silos; furniture for stables, barns, kennels, etc. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission His model pigsties and cottages were unpopular, but he loved his animals and understood them. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 When it was all over, the White House resembled a pigsty. The Reign of Andrew Jackson At the end of the garden was a peaked-roof pigsty; it was cleanly kept, and its inhabitant had his meals served with the regularity which characterized all that Grandfather Warren did. The Morgesons Humanitarianism is a pigsty, where liars, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate; it has been so since the great Jew conceived it, and it will be so till the end. Confessions of a Young Man "But you seemed to think that we were to live in a pigsty," said Amelia. Mr. Scarborough's Family As the steward said the two guests were only going to spend the night and continue on their way the next morning, I led the two horses into the pigsty. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The last work was the building of pigsties—rude indeed and made of a few slabs—but sufficient to answer the purpose. Hodge and His Masters They had made a pigsty of many a neat little cottage, and it seemed as though an earthquake had heaped everything together into a shapeless, senseless litter. The Soul of the War Humanity is a pigsty, where liars, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate; it has been so since the great Jew conceived it, and it will be so till the end. Confessions of a Young Man I got the man to speak about the ancient wall, although it was evidently not a subject that interested him so deeply as his pigsty. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine On the evening of the second day spent in the pigsty, I took the horses, which had become dirty in spite of my efforts, and started to ride them down to the horse-pond. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes How men like these on tramp must have envied the comfortable cottages, the well-stocked gardens, the pigsties, the beehives, and the roses of the labourers! Hodge and His Masters In the morning we were able to measure the strength of the storm, and over and above my pigsty there was damage enough wrought in the village to keep us busy. The Ghost Ship I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty. Hard Times Had it been placed in the valley it would have been pulled down long ago, and the materials would have been used for building houses or pigsties. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine "It was a pigsty, Sir," answered Herse; "really and truly a pigsty, with the pigs running in and out; I couldn't stand upright in it." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The pigsties are full of weeds; he can hardly fatten one for his own use, and has scarcely better facilities for keeping pigs than an agricultural labourer. Hodge and His Masters I dare say you won't believe me, it seems a bit tall even to me, but the wind had lifted the thatch of my pigsty into the widow's garden a second time. The Ghost Ship In return for their services they got enough bad food to keep them alive and a sort of pigsty in which they could rest at night. The Story of Mankind Upon the ground, man, by using no rein of respect to curb the lower needs of life, has desecrated the spot with pigsties! Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine "After all, it was not so bad, Herse, in the pigsty, as it seemed to you when you first stuck your nose into it," said Kohlhaas. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes This house was something between a cave, a prison, and a tumbledown pigsty. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter The first moment he was able to join his coreligionists, instead of welcoming him with open arms, they threw him into a pigsty with swine for company. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution When they had me inside that miserable pigsty, I begged them to give me some rags to cover my naked body so I could be presentable. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself They kindled, and lighted up the back of the house, the pigsty, and his own face, till they were more or less consumed. Jude the Obscure Od's thunder!" cried Herse; "breast strap and blankets I tell you, and a bundle of linen I left behind in the pigsty. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one's pigsties." The Voyage Out I wasn't fit for anything but driving cattle and cleaning out their stinking pigsties…. Mary Olivier: a Life Still she couldn't get leave to live with them, but they drove her out into a pigsty. Popular Tales from the Norse On such occasions they are forced to leave the cave, and then they go to a disused pigsty near by. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe "You mean," interrupted Kohlhaas, "that it was such a poor shelter for horses that it was more like a pigsty than a stable?" The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Out of the covered part of the pigsty, not far from which the parson stood, the boy came creeping on all fours, followed by a litter of half-grown, grunting, gamboling pigs. A Rough Shaking On Sunday I found a frozen sparrow, whose heart had almost ceased to beat, in the disused pigsty, and put him for warmth into my breast-pocket. Auld Licht Idyls Now the but was as dark and dirty as a pigsty, so the Mastermaid said she would smarten it up a little, that their house might look inside like other people's. Popular Tales from the Norse An English pigsty is cleaner than the metropolis of Portugal. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Next to it was the pigsty, as the inmates took care to let me know by their grunting. Two Summers in Guyenne For this prodigal brother of ours has become a very unsightly and unattractive object during these thousands of years of his sojourn among the pigsties and corn husks. The Subterranean Brotherhood She dragged him across the yard, opened the door of the pigsty with her foot, pulled him in, and dropped him close to the wall. Selected Polish Tales As for the stepmother, she got so mad with rage, she chased the lassie into the pigsty. Popular Tales from the Norse There are sheds, and a hen-house, and a pigeon-house, and an old stone pigsty, the open portion of which is overgrown with tall weeds, indicating that no grunter has recently occupied it. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. How many houses and pigsties at Villandraut have been built with materials taken from the castle? Two Summers in Guyenne There was another mother in a disused pigsty. Lying Prophets The pigsty, a miserable lean-to run up of planks and thatched with branches, gave no protection against wind and weather. Selected Polish Tales Well, when the Prince had gone off to sleep, the Princess came and drove Annie away to the pigsty, and lay down in her place. Popular Tales from the Norse Sated with the indulgence of low desires, he let all power slip from his idle hands, and his manhood was rotted away by wallowing in the pigsty of voluptuousness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes A young brother, a novice, was busy, with his frock hitched up, cleaning out the pigsties. Two Summers in Guyenne But a black tragedy blotted out that little happy family in the pigsty, and Death, in the shape of Amos Bartlett, Mr. Chirgwin's head man, fell upon them. Lying Prophets He went to look, but could not get the door of the pigsty to open, the corpse was barring it from the inside like a beam. Selected Polish Tales It is, perhaps, true, meanwhile, that the chances of a man's leading a decent life are greater in a palace than in a pigsty. Confessions and Criticisms I saw beyond me a few farm-buildings, a byre, several pigsties, and three disused waggons. Jim Davis I left Sandy kneeling there, corpse-faced but plucky and hopeful, and rode down to the pigsty, and struck up a trade with the swine-herds. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. I opened window wide and leaned Out of that pigsty of the fiend, And felt a cool wind go like grace About the sleeping market-place. Giant Hours with Poet Preachers You shall kick your bucket in the pigsty, you sinner…like a dog!' Selected Polish Tales The hot scent of the trees and the garden mingled with the smell of manure, pigsties, cooking pig-wash and Vessons' 'Tom Moody' tobacco. Gone to Earth The metal parts of the buggy, writhed into knots and tangles, lay in the ashes of the big shed; beyond, the pigsty smouldered. Back to Billabong Owing to these fresh boots we were spared the pigsties. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters I stared round, hopelessly; and then with two jumps, I was on the pigsty, and from there upon the top of the deckhouse. The Ghost Pirates When they entered the pigsty, a breath of horror struck them, like the exhalation from a corpse. Selected Polish Tales The house was little larger than a good pigsty, and only the trail of smoke from its squat chimney showed that humanity dwelt there. Gone to Earth I'm going to leave nice little chisels and spokeshaves and smoothing planes, and mend up the pigsty; it needs it badly, and so does the cow-shed. Back to Billabong There were thirty of us all told, hustled and driven like pigs into this deck, which was to be our pigsty for six months or more. Moonfleet I don't believe it's worth while to paper the pigsty. Mercy Philbrick's Choice No. They forced them into a pigsty, from which they had driven out the only pig. Their Crimes I heard a shilling a week spoken of as rent for these abominable pigsties, collected every Saturday night. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland "Stop fighting," Blair commanded amiably; "David is right; we have a pigsty of a dining-room at our house." The Iron Woman The manure had to be got out of the stable and pigsties, and carried out to the potato-ground and garden; the crops had to be put in, and the cart was now found valuable. The Children of the New Forest "I do believe you'll paper the pigsty next, mother," said Mercy one day: "there's nothing left you can paper except that." Mercy Philbrick's Choice Eminent personages like Lord Rosebery, ancestrally connected with ancient demesnes, long perverted into pigsties, had been induced to repurchase them, thus restoring an archaic flavour of aristocratic prestige to these despised quarters. Without Prejudice And next day Maria, lost to the Authorities for over an hour, was at length discovered by the forbidden pigsties in a fearful state of mess, but very pleased and happy about something. The Extra Day But the two children gave a touch of humanness to the ruthless room, which, indeed, poor little Blair had some excuse for calling a "pigsty." The Iron Woman With this peasant, his family, his pigs, hens and goats, Belviso and I lived, in a hovel which, had it not been roofed over, might have been a cote or a pigsty. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca In England, pigeon-dung and the cleanings of the pigsty are extensively employed. The Home Acre But a little pig that had strayed around in front of the house heard the noise, and ran away in great fear to the pigsty. Mother Goose in Prose With their wretched little pigsty of a mehana in this poverty-stricken village, they are gradually accumulating a fortune. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran "And next week we are going to start on a new pigsty." The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds In Ohrid, they buried people in pigsty mud for "not paying taxes". Terrorists and Freedom Fighters I've always had a sort of aptitude for living in a pigsty;—a clean pigsty, you know, with nice fresh bean straw to lie upon. The Small House at Allington Now Farmer Bowser, when he had finished sawing the wood, found it was time to feed the pig, so he took a pail of meal and went to the pigsty. Mother Goose in Prose Usually there are one or two curious beehive-like structures in these villages, used here, it is said, as pigsties or storehouses. In Wicklow and West Kerry Behind every house was a pigsty, behind nearly every one a cowshed. The Malady of the Century Jim was wont to remark that if you arranged to clean out a pigsty, Wally would probably regard it as a gigantic picnic, and enjoy his day hugely. Mates at Billabong As it was, for want of a helping hand the place was like a pigsty. Australia Felix She was always resting from the fatigue of imaginary labours, and her house was a pigsty. Jonah "A pretty song, yes—for a pigsty!" said Cigarette, with a glance into the chamber; and she shook his hand off her, and went on down the street. Under Two Flags Like the island it was all of stone, not only in walls but in window-frames, roof, chimneys, fence, stile, pigsty and stable, almost door. The Well-Beloved The pigsty consists of a pit in the earth about 4 feet deep, 5 or 6 feet wide, and 8 or 12 feet long. The Bontoc Igorot And they walk to and from the pigsties which they inhabit—four miles each way, through mud and slush, rain, snow, sleet, and storm, daily, year in and year out. The Mysterious Stranger As sure as Miss Grimes came to give Ray his lesson, he declared the place was a pigsty and tried to shame her by taking off his coat and dusting the room himself. Jonah This pigsty of my uncle’s is not fit for a soldier to come into.’ The Trumpet-Major "Nor is it a pigsty," Gussie urged, without raising her eyes from her work A month or two later he abandoned these sallies of his own accord. The Rise of David Levinsky As the soil of the sementera is turned for the new rice crop these pigsties are cleaned out and the rich manure spread on the beds. The Bontoc Igorot They took down the old blue board with the gold letters, which has been used to mend the pigsty since. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh Tummus works in the garden or about the pigsty and stable; Thomas wears a page's costume of eruptive buttons. The Book of Snobs There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside. Grimm's Fairy Tales The walls of the pigsty which Thankful had had built rose from a lake. Thankful's Inheritance Oh, a high-class eating-house, of course—not a pigsty for common sailors. Ghosts That is why they are for’ard, in that pigsty of a forecastle, because they lack the iron. The Mutiny of the Elsinore He had opened a door, but only for an instant; it led into a back cellar, with a grating instead of a window, down which dropped the moisture from pigsties, and worse abominations. Mary Barton I can nowise explain what sort of whim, prank, or perversity it was, that, after all these leave-takings, induced me to go to the pigsty, and take leave of the swine! The Blithedale Romance If you'll take the first road to the left over there, and turn in at the second pigsty, you will find breakfast on the table and a coffee-pot on the stove. The Man in Lower Ten In Europe, strung up to tragic and majestic issues, to Europe gripping a gigantic evil in a death struggle, that would seem an inscription worthy of a pigsty. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war A pox of this pigsty at the house end: it fills all the house full of fleas. Sir John Oldcastle We don't talk to people in Threadneedle Street about nothing but turnips and pigsties. The Man Who Knew Too Much He had a dirty little room close by the pigsty; and there he sat the whole day, and worked. Andersen's Fairy Tales At the second pigsty to the left," I repeated, "we will find the breakfast I promised you seven eternities ago. The Man in Lower Ten Octavian scrambled hastily over the pigsty wall to her rescue, and at once found himself in a quagmire that engulfed his feet. The Toys of Peace, and other papers I put up with it, but I immediately pulled down the cow barn, the pigsties, the chicken houses, everything—made a clean sweep. The Valley of the Moon He was now close to the house, and leaning over the pigsty wall, in company with Em, who was showing her the pigs, was a strange female figure. The Story of an African Farm, a novel "What can be the reason for such a crowd close by the pigsty?" said the Emperor, who happened just then to step out on the balcony; he rubbed his eyes, and put on his spectacles. Andersen's Fairy Tales A poultry-yard, the stable, and a pigsty faced the house across the courtyard. Sons of the Soil “All right,” came with threefold solemnity from the roof, and a moment later a short ladder had been laboriously pushed across to Octavian, who lost no time in propping it against the low pigsty wall. The Toys of Peace, and other papers Tell her to go into her pigsty and not plague us here. The Playboy of the Western World All the defunct memories of his boyhood returned on him in a flood, as, with an adroit movement, he inserted his leg between Waldo and the wall and sent him over into the pigsty. The Story of an African Farm, a novel All this time Bonaparte Blenkins was sloping down from the house in an aimless sort of way; but he kept one eye fixed on the pigsty, and each gyration brought him nearer to it. The Story of an African Farm, a novel |
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